Council of Novi Sad Assembly Accepts Initiative for Memorial to Casualties of Railway Station Canopy Collapse

Zarko Micin (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN GOJIC)

At a July 28 session, the Culture Committee of the City of Novi Sad Assembly accepted an initiative by Mayor Zarko Micin to erect a memorial to the casualties of the Nov. 1, 2024 concrete canopy collapse at the city's railway station, while opposition councillors left the session after the debate.

The opposition asked Micin to withdraw the initiative, arguing that it should not come from members of the Serbian Progressive Party as the government is responsible for the tragedy due to corruption in the renovation of the railway station building.

The opposition also demanded that the memorial include an inscription of who was responsible for the collapse of the canopy.

Micin said he had consulted Milos Vucevic, Progressive party president, former Novi Sad mayor and former prime minister of Serbia, and that he had said that "the guilty will be held to account before a court of law and the courts will deal with everything." He also said that "everyone in [the Progressive party] can't be responsible for the canopy."

After Micin refused to withdraw the initiative, the opposition councillors left the session.